ST. LOUIS — The Sharks’ depth forwards played the type of game they wanted to Tuesday night.

Tommy Wingels scored his second goal of the playoffs and Dainius Zubrus had a goal and an assist for his first two points of the playoffs in the Sharks’ 4-0 win over the St. Louis Blues in Game 2 that evened the Western Conference final at one win each.

Wingels and Zubrus combined for four shots on goal as the pair, along with linemate Nick Spaling, provided some valuable shifts for the Sharks, both at even strength and on the penalty kill.

“We talk as a line and as a team, how as a fourth line can we be effective,” Wingels said. “Maybe most nights it’s creating energy. It’s punishing the defensemen in the offensive zone. It’s forechecking hard, winning battles, playing well defensively.

“That all being said, we have the confidence as a line that we can score. We can wear their (defensemen) down. We can play in the offensive zone. Tonight I thought we did a great job of that.”

The fourth line of Wingels, Spaling and Zubrus had just one shot on goal in Game 1, and more than one published report suggested that the Blues had used their depth to nullify the Sharks’ top forwards.

But Sharks coach Pete DeBoer stuck with the same recipe Tuesday that has helped get his team this far by rolling his four forward lines and three defense pairs. At even strength, Tomas Hertl led all forwards with 14:08 of ice time and Wingels had 7:36.

“Had a lot of questions in the last day about how much deeper St. Louis is than our forward group,” DeBoer said. “I think our forward group answered that question tonight.”

Burns’ scored after the Brouwer penalty to give the Sharks a 2-0 lead.

“When you want to play a different way than the game’s going to allow you to play, then you can go two ways,” Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said. “You can either dig in and go the right way or you can become frustrated at times and try freelancing or in our case, take penalties. And we went the other way. We got frustrated.”

ST. LOUIS — The Sharks’ depth forwards played the type of game they wanted to Tuesday night.

Tommy Wingels scored his second goal of the playoffs and Dainius Zubrus had a goal and an assist for his first two points of the playoffs in the Sharks’ 4-0 win over the St. Louis Blues in Game 2 that evened the Western Conference final at one win each.

Wingels and Zubrus combined for four shots on goal as the pair, along with linemate Nick Spaling, provided some valuable shifts for the Sharks, both at even strength and on the penalty kill.

“We talk as a line and as a team, how as a fourth line can we be effective,” Wingels said. “Maybe most nights it’s creating energy. It’s punishing the defensemen in the offensive zone. It’s forechecking hard, winning battles, playing well defensively.

“That all being said, we have the confidence as a line that we can score. We can wear their (defensemen) down. We can play in the offensive zone. Tonight I thought we did a great job of that.”

The fourth line of Wingels, Spaling and Zubrus had just one shot on goal in Game 1, and more than one published report suggested that the Blues had used their depth to nullify the Sharks’ top forwards.

But Sharks coach Pete DeBoer stuck with the same recipe Tuesday that has helped get his team this far by rolling his four forward lines and three defense pairs. At even strength, Tomas Hertl led all forwards with 14:08 of ice time and Wingels had 7:36.

“Had a lot of questions in the last day about how much deeper St. Louis is than our forward group,” DeBoer said. “I think our forward group answered that question tonight.”

Burns’ scored after the Brouwer penalty to give the Sharks a 2-0 lead.

“When you want to play a different way than the game’s going to allow you to play, then you can go two ways,” Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said. “You can either dig in and go the right way or you can become frustrated at times and try freelancing or in our case, take penalties. And we went the other way. We got frustrated.”